IV3PRK Pierluigi "Luis" Mansutti (ex HC1PF)

  160 meters Band: DXing on the Edge

 

Photo Album


1968: first station with Tx Geloso and National HRO 


1974: my son Stefano – 2nd operator


1975: my XYL Luisa – antenna helper


1976: Stefano and Lara on phased verticals 


1978: me, 30 years younger and 50 pounds lighter


1979: first CQWW contest with Renzo I3MAU

1981: the dream Drake TR7/L7 line 


1989: CQWW contest from Pantelleria is.


2008: my grandson Alex – new 2nd op.

            2011: Montichiari with Topband friends…. and giving a propagation lecture at Contest University with K1ZM             2013: visiting II9P

2014: dismantling antennas and moving to Ecuador            2014: our new house in Ecuador                  2015: the shack is ready and got the license as HC1PF 

2015: installing antennas in Ecuador                        2015: house, garden and..antennas                                       2015: getting help to raise the vertical

…but antennas are needed also outside of my lot                2015: helper Luisa 40 years later with local friends              2015: Volcan Cotopaxi. 5897m.high,woke up after 138 years!